Source: The Age - Judy Wilkinson
31st October, 2005

A plan by the competition watchdog to change the prices charged for wholesale services in the city and the country will push up prices in the bush, according to Telstra.

Source: The Age - Anthony Forsyth
31st October, 2005

WorkChoices is said to create simpler industrial relations and free and equal bargaining but much of that is spin.

Source: The Sunday Age - Phillip Hudson
31st October, 2005

The head of the proposed new Fair Pay Commission, Ian Harper, revealed yesterday that he wants to use the post to do "God's will".

Source: The Age
31st October, 2005

Indian call centres are reeling after a report slammed them for operating like Roman slave ships.

Source: ABC-TV 7.30 Report transcript - Broadcast: 26/10/2005 - Hamish Fitzsimmons
28th October, 2005

Two of Labor's most successful former leaders have tonight attacked the Federal Government's planned IR changes.

Source: The Australian/AAP
28th October, 2005

Telstra has confirmed that it is undergoing a review of its Hong Kong operations, including the feasibility of merging its wholly owned subsidiary, CSL, with another operator.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
28th October, 2005

Telstra believes operational separation of its retail, wholesale and network divisions would be expensive, largely pointless and without benefit.

Source: ABC-TV 7.30 Report transcript - Broadcast: 25/10/2005 - Emma Alberici
27th October, 2005

Sol Trujillo says the 'golden heart' of Telstra - the fixed line phone business - is under growing threat from internet competitors offering free calls to the world.

Source: ABC Online
27th October, 2005

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke has delivered a stinging rebuke of the Federal Government's industrial relations changes.

Source: The Land
27th October, 2005

Posturing by Telstra boss Sol Trujillo that the cost of rural phones may have to go up has been scoffed at by Nationals Senate Leader, Ron Boswell.

Source: SMH - Jeni Porter
26th October, 2005

Trujillo was all charm, speaking softly and making soothing statements about creating a "new Telstra" where the "customer is the boss".

Source: The Age
26th October, 2005

The daughter of one of Melbourne's pre-eminent business families believes she was misled into appearing in the Federal Government's controversial advertisements to promote its workplace changes.

Source: ABC Online
26th October, 2005

The board of Telstra is meeting today to decide if the CDMA mobile phone network will be scrapped, as part of the company's review as it moves to full privatisation.

Source: ABC Online
26th October, 2005

The Mayor of Roma, in southern Queensland, is calling on Nationals' Senator Barnaby Joyce to help protect regional jobs after Telstra announced the closure of its Roma call centre.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
26th October, 2005

Telstra is set to cut more jobs by shifting large chunks of its operations to third-party service providers. Financial markets are already factoring in up to 16,000 job cuts.

Source: The Australian/AAP
25th October, 2005

The government's proposed workplace relations changes have taken a toll on voter support, with the prime minister's satisfaction rating plunging to its lowest in four years.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
25th October, 2005

Tough talking about regulatory issues is expected from Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie when he delivers his report to the corporation's annual meeting this morning.

Source: The Australian - Saffron Howden
24th October, 2005

The Federal Government has conceded jobseekers will have to accept individual contracts or have their welfare payments cut off, belying its promise that all Australian workers will have work choices.

Source: ABC-TV Lateline transcript - Broadcast 18/10/05 - Narda Gilmore
21st October, 2005

First it was the Anglican and Catholic churches - now the Salvation Army has launched an attack on the Federal Government's planned industrial relations overhaul.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
21st October, 2005

It's now five and counting. That's how many former colleagues of Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo have won senior executive jobs at the telco.

Source: The Age - Paul Robinson and Martin Boulton
20th October, 2005

Workers who appeared in TV ads promoting the Government's workplace changes claim they were lied to about the purpose of the filming.

Source: ABC Online
20th October, 2005

The Liberal Member for Hume, Alby Schultz, says he is horrified but not surprised that Telstra will close its Goulburn call centre in December.

Source: SMH - Colin Kruger
19th October, 2005

The changes continued at Telstra yesterday with more appointments made to the division charged with implementing Sol Trujillo's strategic blueprint.

Source: The Australian
19th October, 2005

The Salvation Army has slammed the Federal Government's proposed workplace changes for what it believes will be the exploitation of the nation's most vulnerable people.

Source: ABC Online
19th October, 2005

The Federal Opposition has accused the Government of not fully informing workers who appear in television advertisements promoting changes to industrial relations (IR).

Source: Daily Telegraph - Joe Hildebrand
19th October, 2005

John Howard has refused to guarantee that most workers won't be worse off under his workplace reforms.

Source: The Australian - Jamie Duncan
18th October, 2005

Up to 1.5 million Australians already living below the poverty line risked being left behind as the Government made "society-changing" reforms to industrial relations, welfare and taxation laws.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
18th October, 2005

Telstra will buy its mobile phones exclusively through a Miami-based company whose owner has business connections to Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo, in an effort to save at least $50 million each year.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
14th October, 2005

Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo has handed the keys to a next-generation network upgrade worth as much as $20 billion to yet another US executive.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
14th October, 2005

Trade Practices Act provisions and pricing regimes proposed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission have the potential to devastate Australia's ability to compete in the global economy, says Doug Campbell.

Source: The Age - Misha Schubert and Paul Robinson
14th October, 2005

John Howard has handed the power to set wages for millions of Australia's worst-paid workers to a conservative academic economist.

Source: The Australian - George Lekakis
14th October, 2005

The Government will collect a dividend of $286.2 million from Australia Post, after the publicly owned corporation notched a record profit for the eighth successive year.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
13th October, 2005

Optus has instigated talks to buy Telecom New Zealand's local subsidiary, AAPT.

Source: The Australian
13th October, 2005

The Federal Government plans to assemble a team of investment banks to sell a multibillion-dollar parcel of Telstra shares to global investors.

Source: ABC Radio The World Today transcript - Broadcast12/10/05 - Tanya Nolan
13th October, 2005

A former senior Telstra executive who left the company just days ago, has spoken out against the full privatisation of the telco, saying he has no doubt people in the bush will be worse off.

Source: The Age - Paul Robinson
13th October, 2005

Prime Minister John Howard appears to have misled Australians by claiming Christmas Day, Anzac Day and other public holidays would not be negotiable under the Government's proposed workplace changes.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
12th October, 2005

The world's biggest investment bankers are polishing their shoes, brushing their best blue suits and preparing for the pitch of their lives, to win a place in the sale of the Government's remaining 6.6 billion Telstra shares.

Source: SMH - Nick O'Malley
11th October, 2005

A Federal Government office is promoting a series of individual contracts that strip workers of conditions the Prime Minister said would be protected unless employers specifically sought their exclusion.

Source: SMH - Andrew West
11th October, 2005

John Howard's workplace laws will usher in uncertainty, fear and the real prospect of government-sanctioned coercion, even bullying, into the workplace.

Source: The Age - Carla Lipsig-Mumme
11th October, 2005

The workplace laws package reveals that the changes are not designed to modernise the industrial relations system, but to terminate the industrial relations system altogether.

Source: The Age
11th October, 2005

Church leaders are joining the chorus of dissent over the government's sweeping industrial changes whilst John Howard has conceded workers could be bullied into accepting cuts. (and more articles)

Source: The Age - Misha Schubert and Paul Robinson
10th October, 2005

The ACTU and the Howard Government have gone head to head in the nationals lounge rooms but the Government has the biggest war-chest.

Source: ABC Online
10th October, 2005

The Federal Opposition says the Government is conning workers into thinking their penalty rates and leave loadings will be protected under planned changes to the industrial relations system.

Source: SMH - Nick O'Malley
10th October, 2005

Workers signing new Australian Workplace Agreements will have to negotiate with employers for many conditions they already enjoy, the Government has revealed.

Source: SMH - Ross Gittins
10th October, 2005

Professor Mark Wooden, viewed in the IR world as a leading pro-employer academic, has dismissed the newly (and deceptively) named WorkChoices as pork-barrelling for employers.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
7th October, 2005

Telstra's bid for a flat rate for access to its copper wires across Australia will soon be decided by a high-level interdepartmental committee (IDC) report to Helen Coonan.

Source: The Age - James McConvill
7th October, 2005

The Telstra Corporation Act will probably protect Telstra and the Government from accusations of breaches of disclosure.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
7th October, 2005

Another financial analyst has suggested Telstra must face staff cuts of at least 9000 in the medium term, and that such a cut would be merely a stopgap measure.

Source: The Age - Marc Moncrief
6th October, 2005

After months of wooing, Deutsche Bank and investment group Wilson HTM have consummated a "strategic alliance" timed to help the bank's bid to broker the final sale of Telstra.

Source: Daily Telegraph - Byron Kaye
6th October, 2005

Big fund managers have been rubbishing Telstra so they can buy into the T3 float at bargain prices, according to small brokers.

Source: The Courier-Mail - Scott Murdoch
6th October, 2005

Telstra's high dividend policy and the $1 billion capital management shake-up k was forced by shareholder pressure, sacked CEO Ziggy Switkowski said yesterday.

Source: ABC-TV 7.30 Report transcript - Broadcast: 05/10/2005 - Michael Brissenden
6th October, 2005

The former CEO of Telstra has today defended his record against claims that he significantly under invested in the network.

Source: The Australian/AAP
6th October, 2005

The Federal Government has been accused of disguising the extreme nature of its upcoming industrial relations (IR) law changes.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
5th October, 2005

Optus may miss the crucial Christmas sales period for third-generation mobile phones, after failing to meet key roll-out targets in August.

Source: The Age - Garry Barker
5th October, 2005

Telstra says the Government's telecommunications regulations leave it carrying the can for every operator in the industry.

Source: The Land
5th October, 2005

The National’ Party's Telstra sale agreement has ominous similarities with the Democrats’ GST deal, which led to the waning fortunes of the Democrats.

Source: The Age
5th October, 2005

Up to 8,000 Telstra workers may face the axe under sweeping pre-sale reforms being considered by chief Sol Trujillo, an investment bank says.

Source: The Australian - Robert Clow
3rd October, 2005

The $8 billion Telstra Super fund wants to invest in private equity deals, the fund's chief investment officer, Stephen Merlicek, told the Australian Venture Capital Association.